molly is the singer in the band

hey kids.
sorry for the delays... william and i both got the wicked puking flu twice and have been down for the count. plus william is planning to show his photos in the st. paul art crawl and has been preparing for that... lots of stuff going on.
one of our bestest friends, jennie, has left for paraguay this morning at 4 am. she joined the peace corps and promises to thank me when she wins the nobel peace prize. i have been immensely excited for her... i think she's gonna love it...and be great at what she'll be doing... but i'm sad anyway. normally i hear from her eleventy million times a day by email and phone. she always shows up when i need her. she makes me laugh. i already miss her giggle. she gives good advice and she is loving and generous and kind. she is smart and pretty, as we like to say. she's had a lot to do with william and i getting together and so we owe her a lot. we will miss her deeply, but we won't forget about her! expect packages, jennie! and you know i want to come to paraguay besides.
william and i have entered into something new and exciting, too. (not as exciting as paraguay). we're now the proud owners of a beautiful little 8-year-old cockapoo named Molly. We got her at the Humane Society two weeks ago today. She is a wonderful little being. She is obedient, polite, sweet-natured, and really playful. She likes her red and pink toys the best it seems, and likes to kick them around the loft by herself and chase them. She also fetches and likes to run away from you when retrieving the ball, then allowing you to "catch' her and give up the ball for another toss. she likes bacon-flavored treats a lot! she has been having some separation anxiety--hates being left alone, basically--and acts out while we are gone by barking and whining and twice peeing in her kennel. but I took her to the vet and she said we can train her out of it and she gave me a prescription for xanax, an anti-anxiety pill, to help calm her down while we are gone (during the transition period... the last two days: no pee, no barking that i know of (we have been taping her for the first hour we are gone). she seems more content, less clingy when we are home, and not so stressed out in general. yay for molly!!!! we call her molly mcbutter, molly dog, mcB, and molly jones (like the beatles song). i feel so lucky she has come into our lives. she loves us both and we are so ridiculously sickeningly in love with her... a couple photos are on the flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/willikat). even a super-scary lookin' gangsta stopped to pet her one day, and many people have stopped and removed their mittens (tough when it's this cold), to give her a pet while we are outside.
so that means we haven't done any wedding planning. we're still contemplating may of next year, at the weisman or como zoo. possibly an away wedding, but not looking like it at this point.
better writing to come, just need some time and internet at home. just wanted to update...
xoxo